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On my old Windows 7 computer, when working with Word docs formatted in two columns, footnotes always appeared at the foot of the column where the reference was inserted. I just got a Windows 10 computer with Office 365 for business. Now footnotes appear on the same page as the insertion point, but do not follow the 'same column' rule, or at least not always. My client rightly expects footnotes to appear at the foot of the same column as the insertion point. Is there a fix or workaround?
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Please change your profile or, despite the language in your question, you are likely to get responses dealing with Word 2010 and Windows 7.

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I think this page should show you what you need.
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Thanks, Andrew. I'm sure this is supposed to solve my problem but it doesn't. I studied the page you pointed me to and went through the exercise several times, but I still have a footnote inserted in the RH column and the footnote itself appearing at the bottom of the LH column. If I've not followed the instructions properly, I have no idea what I might have done wrong.
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Post a sample document so we can see what your current state is.
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It isn't aligning automatically for me either and it doesn't look like the settings have any direct effect. I would recommend you add some kludge fixes to get your column alignment to your liking. For instance, add a paragraph mark at the end of the first footnote and you push 2 onto the second column. Or add two paras to the end of the third footnote and you push all three into the first column.
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Okay, I will kludge away. Thanks Andrew.
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I am pretty sure this is by design. The aim being to make maximum use of the space at the bottom of the page. The first footnote will go in the left. A second one will go in the right column even if place in the left column.

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If I add another footnote it will go in the right column and the first two will be on the left.

I know of no way to change this behavior. Footnotes are linked to the page, not to the column.
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Thank you, Charles, but I have a different explanation. I think I've discovered what's happening. There is no problem having footnotes track with their respective columns if it is created in Word 2007. See attached.

When I open and edit this document in Word for Office 365, the column behavior starts to break down. The document in question was created in a version other than Office 365.I don't know what version--the author doesn't know. It's when any editing of the document is done in 365 that the footnotes start failing to behave. I wonder if Microsoft did this intentionally, or perhaps isn't even aware.
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Your first document “sample p1.docx” displays as you expect in Word 2007 and LibreOffice Writer. It might have been created in Word 2007.
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Robert2, thanks, but I don't agree. "Sample p1.docx" does not display as I would expect in Word 2007. In Word 2007, I would expect the footnotes to appear at the foot of the column in which they were inserted, as in "sample2.docx" (which I created in Word 2007 for the purposes of this discussion). "Sample p1.docx" appears with footnotes not following their columns, apparently as a result of editing it in 365.
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I realize that by now this is getting tiresome, BUT.... I just created a fresh, two-column document in Office 365. I inserted a footnote in the LH column and then, because the experimental text runs over to the RH column, I inserted a footnote there. Footnote 1 appears at the foot of the LH column and f.n. 2 appears at the bottom of the RH column.
This whole issue appears to be nothing more than a glitch peculiar to the document I was originally editing. I do appreciate everyone's willingness to offer assistance. Thank you very much.
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